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Originally Posted by JustMike NAACP honors Prince
NEW YORK (AP) -- Prince will be honored with the 2005 NAACP Vanguard Award, given to those who have worked to increase understanding and awareness of racial and social issues.
Previous honorees are film director Steven Spielberg and movie producer Stanley Kramer. The award will be presented to the "Purple Rain" singer during the 36th annual NAACP Image Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on March 19. The show will be broadcast March 25 on Fox television.
"During the '80s, Prince emerged as the musical prophet of the era, releasing a series of albums that both define and captured the spirit of the times," the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in a statement. "His genre-bending songs sent shock waves through the music industry that still reverberate today."
Earlier this month, Prince won two Grammy Awards -- for best male R&B vocal performance for "Call My Name," a single from his most recent album, "Musicology," and best traditional R&B vocal performance for "Musicology." |
i remember back in the day it was Prince Vs Michael Jackson , and everyone thought if you like Prince you were Gay.(Hehe) I mean literally that was the mentality growing up in the eighties. So if it was a battle i guess Prince won right?